Nov 12 | | Separated at Birth? |
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Jul 16 | | Newer Cocktails |
| | | One part strong booze. |
Jun 24 | | Media Spots and Your Book Tour
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| | | Do you have a special interest in the subject matter of your book? |
Jun 17 | | About This Site |
| | | This site put the first syllable back into Country Music. |
Jun 11 | | Speculative highlights of a date in which Jacques Tati, as Monsieur Hulot in the French comic masterpiece “Mon Oncle,” dines with Christina Amphlett of The Divinyls, as she appeared in the video for “I Touch Myself” |
| | | Hundreds of bicyclists swarm. |
Jun 5 | | David Frum’s Google History
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| | | What is economics? |
May 17 | | Checklist for the First-Time Novelist |
| | | Is it plainly and transparently you? |
May 8 | | Mincing Words |
| | | Jennifer Aniston? |
May 1 | | Petition |
| | | So they may elect someone more truthful and less boring. |
Apr 26 | | Language Barrier |
| | | Messily. |
Apr 17 | | The New Pharmacy |
| | | Equipped with absolutely nothing to say? |
Apr 2 | | Show Them What You’re Made Of |
| | | Gruyère cheese, for example. |
Mar 24 | | The Ondaatje Memos
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| | | Like a stone skipped across nervous water. |
Mar 18 | | The Things That Happened |
| | | I can talk through my hands! |
Mar 10 | | The Mainly Nonverbal Communication Between Lawrence and Fiona on the Drive Home from the Dinner Party At Which Lawrence Had Let the Wine Do the Talking. Fiona Drives. |
| | | Time to go. |
Mar 5 | | They Ask for Things |
| | | Clap. clap, clap. |
Mar 1 | | Adventures in Reductionism |
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Feb 25 | | Of Note |
| | | Just some things. |
Feb 22 | | The Information |
| | | Not really all that informative, actually. |
Feb 17 | | Generation Wha? |
| | | Oh Leah, Part Two |
Feb 15 | | Moraler Economies
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| | | The White House diaries of David Frum. |
Feb 11 | | How Was Your Flu?
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| | | Like snorting potato salad?
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Feb 3 | | At the Dawn of the XFL
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| | | “You’re all right here...”
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Jan 31 | | Jokes for a New Economy
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| | | Other than Matthew Ingram, of course.
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Jan 25 | | Twenty Degrees
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| | | Round trip.
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Jan 21 | | Toward a New Vernacular
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| | | Part One: Onanism.
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Jan 17 | | Story Pitch
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| | | Blood and Gore-Tex: A Vancouver Mystery.
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Jan 14 | | Film Review
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| | | Rocco’s True Anal Stories 5, by Rex Murphy.
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Jan 10 | | How to Cook Soup
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| | | Literally, how to cook soup.
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Jan 4 | | Warning
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| | | Danger lies around every corner.
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Jan 1 | | Infrequent Google Searches
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| | | Okay, maybe ‘unlikely.’
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Dec 17 | | New Life for Old Songs
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| | | All made of ticky tacky.
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Dec 12 | | On a Cold Day in Canada
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| | | Ooooh, Eckler you minx.
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Dec 3 | | Urbania
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| | | Not just a car, a dining room.
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Nov 30 | | Book Report: City of Glass
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| | | What’s with the pot?
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Nov 25 | | Index
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| | | Je m’accuse!
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Nov 18 | | Nostradumbass
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| | | David Frum: Sage.
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Nov 11 | | An Apology
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| | | This really happened.
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Nov 5 | | Unfinished Jokes
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| | | Apologies to The Idler.
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Oct 30 | | The Fruits of a Brief Moment of Intense Thought Upon Viewing an Ad for Cappuccino-flavoured Gum
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| | | Covered in Blood!
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Oct 26 | | Book Report: One Market Under God
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| | | This plutocracy was cool! |
Oct 22 | | Jokette
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| | | Ya, shit, man, I come to this place all the time. |
Oct 19 | | A Cover Version of Cut Your Hair by Pavement, Including a New Fourth Verse Improvised Late One Night by This Wasted Scottish Guy Named Fenton
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| | | Ooahh. |
Oct 14 | | Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes
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A roundtable appraisal by Evil Dean, Good Dean and Sleepy Dean.
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Oct 8 | | McSweeney’s Issue V
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| | | Talk the talk, better walk the walk. |
Sep 24 | | Stop the Inanity
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| | | On downloading the latest plugin to enjoy our latest features.
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Sep 15 | | Miscellany II
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| | | In which your correspondent doesn’t have a great deal to say about anything, really, and so he stands, takes a look around, and wonders about scrounging up some lunch.
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Sep 2 | | Hype, Annotated
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| | | In which a plucky young newspaper takes a break from covering incomprehensible bullshit like the ‘bobo’ phenomenon to address more burning matters, like the lifestyles of book designers.
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Aug 26 | | Things Were Said
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| | | In which your correspondent gets a tad impressed with himself.
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Aug 24 | | So, This is Chet
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| | | Post-literate society? Doesn’t even know what it means!
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Aug 17 | | The Pitch
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| | | A brief proposal on working the fetish angle, with an obligatory mid-backlash mention of Dave Eggers.
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Aug 13 | | Cardigan Personal Style
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| | | Cheaper than an over-compensatingly butch men’s magazine, if nothing else.
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Aug 3 | | Transcript, with Needles
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| | | My tirade as delivered this afternoon to the individual enjoying a complimentary glass of filtered water at the front of the express line...
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Aug 2 | | Where Would Conrad Go?
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| | | The men feared him, the women adored him.
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Jul 30 | | Book Report: A Massive Swelling
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| | | The magic side having enacted a ridiculous beard deal with cyberkraut model Claudia Schiffer, who everyone knows was built by professional scientists and has no distracting emotions.
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Jul 27 | | The Week in Review
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| | | In which a car is stolen and your correspondent descends into something of a funk.
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Jul 18 | | Doppelgangers, Alors
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| | | La Double Vie de Véronique Your Correspondent.
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Jul 8 | | My, This Will Be Fun
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| | | The empty, buggy eyes of that smug fuck Day.
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Jul 5 | | An Interview with Dean Allen by Dean Allen |
| | | The late night thoughts of your correspondent after viewingGlengarry, Glen Ross.
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Jun 28 | | Letter Never Sent
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| | | Okay, okay, it’s about Michael Turner and Martin Amis. Sheesh.
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Jun 25 | | Reeders II: Rocketbooked
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| | | They’re still waiting for you, you realize.
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Jun 24 | | What What Else Would Conrad Do?
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| | | The Conrad Black action figure is irrepressible!
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Jun 11 | | Three Scenarios
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| | | 15-second pitches for films starring Parker Posey and Eric Stoltz, or whoever their current equivalent is. Your correspondent doesn’t have time for cinema-going.
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Jun 3 | | What Would Conrad Do?
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| | | Conrad is go!
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May 28 | | Meet the Reeders
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| | | Go on, meet them. Pour a glass of Merlot. They want to talk.
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May 23 | | Russell Smith: The Coming Year
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| | | On satirizing the only things for which you are known.
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May 21 | | Unanticipated Phrases
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| | | I didn’t say the Ira Glass line, but he was annoying me at the moment, so let it go.
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Apr 18 | | Marketing Culture
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| | | A review that briefly filled the gaps between lifestyle ads in The Georgia Straight, on three writers’ enthusiasms for lifestyle advertising.
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Apr 17 | | Edward Gorey, RIP
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| | | Well, he died.
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Apr 7 | | A Play in One Act
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| | | In which your correspondent manages to complain without making anyone cry.
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Apr 5 | | Free Market Enthusiasms
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| | | Turns out the suburbs really are cauldrons of evil! Hurry, hurry, buy shabbily built condos in ‘edgy’ urban quarters.
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Apr 4 | | Higher Learning
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| | | An astonishingly out-of-date update.
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Apr 2 | | Waiting for Fast Food
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| | | We did end up having coffee.
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Mar 27 | | The Gaffe List
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| | | In which your correspondent is assailed by failings.
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Mar 24 | | Book Design in Canada
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| | | In which your correspondent further ensures the demise of his career.
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